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# סָרַח

Biblical Hebrew

**go free** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

go free [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b7_5d7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָרַח: vb. go free, be unrestrained overrun, exceed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b7_5d7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. go free, be unrestrained overrun, exceed (NH סָרוּחַ overhanging, flapping; Arabic سَرَح of camels, etc., pasture where they please; also send forth to pasture; ii. let a wife go free; let down the hair; سُرُح easy.—NH סָרַח, Aramaic ܣܪܰܚ usually = corrupt, sin);— Impf. 3 fs. תִּסְרַח Ex 26:12; Pt. act. f. סֹרַ֫חַת Ez 17:6; pass. סָרוּחַ (cf. Köii. 1, 137 Ges§ 50 f. BaNB 180) Ex 26:13; pl. סְרוּחִים Am 6:7, סְרֻחִים v 4; cstr. סְרוּחֵי Ez 23:15;— go free, be unrestrained: וּסְרֻהִים עַל־עַרְשׂוֹתָם Am 6:4 i.e. prob. = and are sprawling upon their couches (in contempt. hyperbole), מִרְזַח ס׳ v 7 the revelry of sprawlers; pt. act. of overrunning, spreading vine Ez 17:6. of overhanging stuffs (proposes overrunning, exceeding, extended beyond limits) תִּסְרַח עַל אֲחֹרֵי הַמִּשְׁכָּן Ex 26:12 (P) it shall overrun (overhang), over the back of the tabern., so יִהְיֶה סָרוּחַ עַל־צִדֵּי הַמּ׳ v 13; סְרוּחֵי טְבוּלִים Ez 23:15 overhung of turbans, extended with respect to turbans, = with pendant turbans (cf. \[טְבוּל\]). Pf. 3 fs. נִסְרְחָה חָכְמָתָם Je 49:7 usually is their wisdom let loose (i.e. dismissed, gone)? (‖ הֵאֵין עוֹד חָכְמָה בְּתֵימָ֑ן אָֽבְדָה עֵצָה מִבָּנִים); but NöExpos. May, 1897, 363 is corrupt (cf. NH, and especially Aramaic).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: has it been corrupted? (1); it will overhang (1); overhanging (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 26:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.12/#tree)

וְסֶ֙רַח֙ הָעֹדֵ֔ף בִּירִיעֹ֖ת הָאֹ֑הֶל חֲצִ֤י הַיְרִיעָה֙ הָעֹדֶ֔פֶת תִּסְרַ֕ח עַ֖ל אֲחֹרֵ֥י הַמִּשְׁכָּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and the.overhanging of the.surplus in the.curtains of the.tent the.half of the.curtain (the) surplus it.will.overhang over the.rear of the.tabernacle

*JPS 1917:* And as for the overhanging part that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth over shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

[Jeremiah 49:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.7/#tree)

לֶאֱד֗וֹם כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת הַאֵ֥ין ע֛וֹד חָכְמָ֖ה בְּתֵימָ֑ן אָבְדָ֤ה עֵצָה֙ מִבָּנִ֔ים נִסְרְחָ֖ה חָכְמָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* of Edom thus he.says Yahweh of.hosts \[is\].there not? still wisdom in Teman has.it.been.lost? counsel from \[those.who\].understand has.it.been.corrupted? wisdom their

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Is counsel perished from the prudent? Is their wisdom vanished?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b7_5d7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b7_5d7/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).